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Toronto Star's David Rider awarded Massey fellowship

Toronto Star city hall bureau chief among six awarded William Southam Journalism Fellowships for 2013.

Toronto Star city hall bureau chief David Rider is a recipient of prestigious journalistm fellowship at Massey College for 2013-2014.

By Sean TepperStaff Reporter

Thu., June 13, 2013

David Rider, the Toronto Star’s city hall bureau chief, has won a prestigious journalism fellowship from Massey College at Thursday night’s Canadian Journalism Foundation (CJF) awards.

Rider was awarded the St. Clair Balfour Fellowship at the 2013 CJF awards gala in Toronto. The award was one of six William Southam Journalism Fellowships handed out at the ceremony for a year of post-secondary study at the University of Toronto.

As bureau chief, Rider has led the paper’s coverage of Mayor Rob Ford’s administration. He graduated with honours from the Ryerson School of Journalism and got his start covering city hall for Manitoba’s Brandon Sun.

In addition to the Star, Rider has also worked as a full-time reporter or editor at the Winnipeg Sun, Ottawa Sun, Toronto Sun, CBC and Reuters and has covered events from all over the world, including a 19-month assignment chronicling the Somalia scandal that rocked the Canadian military in the 1990s.

The other William Southam Journalism Fellowship winners are:

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Amara Bangura, a Sierra Leonean radio journalist working as BBC Media Action’s production manager, who received Gordon N. Fisher / JHR Fellowship;

Kelly Crowe, a correspondent for CBC News: The National, who received the Kierans Janigan Fellowship;

Véronique Morin, a renowned science journalist, who is the recipient of the Webster McConnell Fellowship.

José Peralta, a Uruguayan investigative journalist, who received the Scotiabank/CJFE Fellowship;

Jody Porter, a CBC radio reporter in Thunder Bay, who received the CBC / Radio-Canada Fellowship.

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